User:Katr67

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[edit] Who I am, what I'm doing

Katr67 is a Wikipedia editor living in the U.S. state of Oregon. "Katr" is all one word and rhymes with "cater" or "Tater Tots". KATR was once a country music station in Eugene, Oregon and Katr67 somehow got the nickname "Katr" in high school. ("...the other country station was 'country KATR' and they were real hillbilly." [1]) Make of that what you will, but please don't call Katr67 "Kat".

I mostly edit articles having anything to do with Oregon. I specialize in articles about communities, and my work ranges from Wikignome-like minor edits to wholesale rewrites of articles. When I find the time I add articles about obscure places in Oregon, and I keep on eye on all of the articles about Oregon communities. Yep, every last one. (What this means is that I remove vandalism from these articles and try to clean up good faith additions, but remove POV. I do this because I believe in quality articles, not because I have some sort of Goddess complex. Honest.) I especially dislike linkspam and promotional and tourist-oriented content better suited to Wikitravel. Feel free to talk to me about my edits! I tend to fight a lot of vandalism, since I have about a million things on my watchlist. I have been known to work as a professional editor. This does not mean I am infallible, but if you'd like to have me look over your edits, please ask! Katr67

Why? To combat "placelessness" aka "The United States of Generica".

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The Original Barnstar
For work on Pacific Northwest places, competence and civility. Walter Siegmund (talk) 23:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjects

[edit] External links

Oregon Geographic Names, not to be confused with Oregon Geographic Names, from Portland State University Department of Geology Northwest GeoData Clearinghouse: "Associated with each name are: County, Latitude, Longitide, Elevation, and 7.5' Quadrangle Name." For filling out coordinates templates.

[edit] Stuff to work on

This editor is a Grognard, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book
This editor is a Grognard, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book

[edit] Admin-type stuff to do

[edit] Admin-type policy to point out

[edit] Anonymous IP edits I've known

[edit] Rants

If I see that one more "town" is "nestled" in anything, anywhere, I'll scream. Katr67 05:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Cities are platted. Not "planted" or "plotted" or any other such thing. Plats are also different from "plans". Think before you edit! Katr67 21:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Please please please use: Show preview instead of making multiple edits to the same article. If you're worried about losing your work, copy and save it to a Word doc or something similar (the Wiki markup will still work if you need to use your saved copy). Multiple edits make it hard to track changes and clutter up the page history. OK, so it bumps up your edit count. And? Oh, and BTW, also please please please write good edit summaries! Katr67 18:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

If you mention "grammar" in your edit summary, be sure to spell it right. :) Katr67 17:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, and Spam

[edit] Handy collection of internal links, templates and boilerplate

This is a list I put together for my personal use. If you feel the need to copy and paste this wholesale onto your user page, please let me know. I'm glad you like my ideas but be sure to be creative and create your own headers too! Making your own list will probably be more useful to you though.

A picture for you...because you rock! Cacophony 08:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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A picture for you...because you rock! Cacophony 08:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Most frequently used

[edit] And the rest


[edit] My favorite citation[1]

  1. ^ McArthur, Lewis A., Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.

[edit] Spelling searches

(Idea stolen from Welsh)

[edit] Grammar quibbles

  • renown (Renown is a noun. Renowned is an adjective. Things can be "world-renowned" but not "world renown".)

Similarly: iced tea, canned vegetables, stained glass, first-come-first-served, old-fashioned, etc. (Not "ice tea", "can vegetables", "stain glass", "first come first serve", "old fashion", etc.)

Darn that Pacific Northwest dialect, anyway.

[edit] Return of the userboxen

Hint for "copy and pasters": I encourage you to be creative and find your own, but if you feel the need to put any of these on your own page, you should know I "subst" my userboxes, and have changed some of the wording to suit myself, thus some of these are not quite the "official" wording. You can find the originals by following the links here: Wikipedia:Userboxes. Let me know if you're Manx though, I made that one and if you're Manx, by all means use it and drop me a note

Userboxen
This user lives in Oregon.
This user is part of WikiProject Oregon.
National Register of Historic Places This user is a member of the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject.
This user is a member of the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America.
Image:WikiGnome.png This user is a slightly egotistical WikiGnome.
This user assumes good faith (most of the time).
This user is a member of WikiProject Ghost towns.
This user is a professional editor. This is the editor formerly known as a professional editor.
Flexible This user deals with the deletion, creation, and edits to articles on a case by case basis instead of a unilateral wikiphilosophy and encourages others to do so. (Except in the case of link spam.)
linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor.
its & it's This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
’s This user knows that not every word that ends with s needs an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophes from Wikipedia indiscriminately.
... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.
mankind This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.
they This user considers singular they substandard English usage.
PNW-en This user is a native speaker of Pacific Northwest English.
This user speaks pirate. Arrr!
This user is of German ancestry.
This user is of Volga German ancestry.
This user is of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
This user is of French ancestry.
This user is of Québécois ancestry.
This user is of Manx ancestry.
This user is of Irish ancestry.
This user is of English ancestry.
This user is of Scottish ancestry.
This user is of Welsh ancestry.

[edit] To do

Oregon State Hospital +cat mental hospitals (link to Kesey, Cuckoo's Nest (filmed there)) already linked to Richard Brautigan. Katr67 02:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Write articles on the Eugene band Snakepit, and Oregon musician Mike Johnson. Katr67 18:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

List of capitals in the United States - fact check Oregon entry

List of Indian reservations in Oregon - finish sorting all this out Katr67 07:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Help make Oregon State Capitol as pretty as featured article Michigan State Capitol. Katr67 00:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Try to find something about my ancestor, Louis Alexander Lezotte (Louis Lizote or Louis Lisote), being awarded the Badge of Military Merit that isn't original research. Katr67 18:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC) "He had enlisted...as a private in Captain Gilbert's Company, Hazen's Regiment during the winter of 1777 and served at White Plains and at the taking of Cornwallis. He was also a private in Captain Olivier's 3rd Company and was honorably discharged...in June 1783." From a history of Chazy, New York. Katr67 23:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I can't believe there isn't an article on the floaty pen! Surely if snow globe can have an article, then so can the floaty pen! Katr67 18:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Write article on nuclear weapons transport the White Train aka "Death Train", which protesters once successfully stopped in Oregon using non-violent civil disobedience in the 1980s, since nobody remembers this. Katr67 18:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Write an article on Carpenter Gothic and/or add content to the Gothic Revival architecture article about gothic residences (since it's heavy on the churches and stuff). It looks like this and the gable-front-and-wing, less elaborate sort they used to build in Oregon is also known as a "Western Farmhouse". Examples abound. I even have photos. Hurray for center gables! Another link. Katr67 22:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I just learned about the United States Army Air Service "Spruce Squadrons" here. I think they need an article. Katr67 07:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Something on the Lovejoy Columns by Tom Stefopoulos. (See Pearl District, Portland, Oregon). Katr67 02:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Wagon Train of 1843/Great Migration (of 1943). [2] [3] Katr67 01:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Santa, Idaho [4] Katr67 21:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Holy Cow! There is not an article on the Bad Livers. Must rectify... Katr67 00:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Povey Brothers Art Glass Works, aka Povey Brothers, aka Povey Brothers Studio. In churches all over Oregon. Also at the University of Oregon. Katr67 19:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Probably includes this: Image:ORSCcourtroomstainedglass.JPG per [5] and at Deepwood Estate per [6]. Katr67 06:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Best articles found by accident

[edit] Ancestry stuff

For what it's worth (not much), according to the Mormons and their fine database, like at least 25% of people with English heritage, [7][8] I am descended from:

And also these other notable people (taken with a huge grain of salt, as none of this has been verified by me):

Possibly notable:

  • Ledstone Noland
  • Beatrice Pinto

Distant cousin:

[edit] Ungnomelike list of stuff I've done

Main article: User:Katr67/Ungnomelike list of stuff I've done

[edit] Some places I've at least set foot in, a few I was too young to remember

I stole this idea from someone, who stole it from someone, etc. If you steal it from me, for goshsakes write your own headers and put them in some order that is meaningful to you! (mine are ordered chronologically)

States visited
Oregon Idaho Wyoming South Dakota North Dakota Minnesota Montana Washington California Nevada New York Texas Georgia
Countries visited
United States Cascadia Canada France
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